About 21 rooms in the Palace of
the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, were razed by fire. The fire was caused by electrical surge in one of the rooms.
Three apartments occupied by the Alaafin’s wives and the rooms – Ile Ori and Ile Ifa - where artifacts were kept were affected.But no life was lost and nobody sustained injury.
The monarch’s wives and princesses
Folasade (a.k.a Iyaa Meta), Rukayat and Abibat lamented that they lost
all
their valuables to the inferno.
Alaafin’s Media Assistant, Alhaji Azeez
Fehintola, said, “The extent of the damage is beyond my imagination. I
broke down in tears when I saw the havoc. The fire outbreak was caused
by electrical surge, it started around 6am and lasted three hours.
“The fire-fighters came at some minutes past seven. The apartments were completely razed.”
When contacted on the telephone, the
Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State Command, Mr. Ayodele Lanade,
said he was on his way to Abuja and could not react because he was
driving.
Meanwhile, Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, lamented the fire that wreaked havoc in Alaafin’s palace.
He said the fire destroyed artefacts, ornaments and traditional relics of the people of Yorubaland.
He made this known in a statement on Wednesday after paying a visit to the monarch in Oyo.
He said, “It is in our own definition, a
disaster, moreso, having gone round the whole palace on inspection of
the damage. The fire touched virtually everywhere and it was very
devastating. It consumed virtually everything, including traditional
attires, ornaments.
Source-PN
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